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Updated: September 10, 2025
There was nothing nothing to be seen; in one sense, this was the thing of all others which overwhelmed my mind. But why insist upon these matters of detail to unenlightened men? There was nothing, and I had seen nothing. What I said was the truth. All this time Lecamus had said nothing.
Lecamus was obliged to return to Paris with nothing better than those doubtful words and the secret of the approaching convocation of the States-general, thus confided to him by the queen-mother. The Cardinal de Lorraine obtained, within a few days of the events just related, certain revelations as to the culpability of the court of Navarre.
He had a bundle of papers in his hand. He had been setting in order his report of what had happened to him, to be submitted to the Maire. I owe it to you that this unhappy drunkard has been sent to disturb me in my feebleness and the discharge of a public duty. 'My good Monsieur Lecamus, said I, 'you do my recollection too much honour.
Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat. Most respected and honored by his brother craftsmen, he owed to his long possession of the first place in the trade much of the consideration that was shown to him.
"Let him wait in the salle des gardes," he said aloud. "Is he young, Pardaillan?" "Yes, monseigneur; he says he is a son of Lecamus the furrier." "Lecamus is a good Catholic," remarked the cardinal, who, like his brother the duke, was endowed with Caesar's memory. "The rector of Saint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs relies upon him; he is the provost of that quarter."
The marriage had been postponed until this royal favor was obtained. Though the burghers of Paris had lately acquired the right to purchase manors, the wisdom of the privy council had been exercised in putting certain restrictions on the sale of those estates which were dependencies of the Crown; and the one which old Lecamus had had in his eye for the last dozen years was among them.
Tell him, above all, to bring his daughter." Lecamus, the syndic of the guild of furriers, was a handsome old man of sixty, with white hair, and a broad, open brow. As court furrier for the last forty years, he had witnessed all the revolutions of the reign of Francois I. He had seen the arrival at the French court of the young girl Catherine de' Medici, then scarcely fifteen years of age.
Was not he the representative of the Unseen, the vice-gerent, with power over heaven and hell? but something was here more strong than he. He stood by my side in spite of himself to listen to the ambassador. I will not deny that such a choice was strange, strange beyond measure, to me also. 'Lecamus, I said, my voice trembling in my throat, 'have you been among the dead, and do you live?
The two archers who were stationed at the corner of the Lecamus house had departed, and Cristophe, son of the furrier, vehemently suspected of deserting Catholicism, was able to leave the shop without fear of being made to adore the Virgin.
I do not propose to you any baseness; I will not ask you to return to your party and betray its plans, there are always traitors enough for that, and the proof is in the prisons of Blois; tell me only on what terms are the queen-mother and the Prince de Conde?" "I know nothing about it, monseigneur," replied Christophe Lecamus.
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